West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-02-03
TIE NEWS In BRIEF.

! The TennesSes Senate passed the prohibi.
tion amendment by a vote of 81 yeas to q
nays.
The Michigan Legislature has decided tc
submit the question OF prohibitory amend.
ment TO a vote OF the people
Archibald +. RAIDER, Of West Virginia.
has been appointed special agent TO investi-
gate Indian depreciation claims.
Five OF the men engaged In the robbery Of
the railroad train at Gordon, Tex, on Sum
day morning last, have been arrested, and the
prospect is that the other three will be can
/ tured.
Kate Bardell, a school teacher OF York.
town, in Dickey county, Oak VIII le return.
ing from neighbJr's to her claim, last Sat
urday during blizzrrd, was irczsn to death
after wandering over five m lie, ou. Of her
way.
The State Department officials at Washing,
ton are inclined TO regard TO recent action OF
the Senate in amending ths Hawaiian treaty
as rendering the extension Of the treaty by
the present Congress improb able il not i'm.
possible
Mrs. Asa j. Millman and tier two children.
under 2years OF age. residing near Burr Oak.
Mich, were found drowned i'm a .istern In
three feet OF water, by her husband on his 70.
turn home from work.
Earthquakes were felt in the countrv
around Omaha, Thursday evening AT
Fremont aud North Bend a loud rumbling OF
the earth was perceptible for several seconds
nm tha l.,
ner. No damage is reported.
The Canadian Government ha, decided 20
release the American fishing schooners elan
nette and Maggie Mitchell, ssiz ID by the
schooner Middleton, at 81. Andrews, " r.
few weeks ago, on the payment OF fines Of
ESQ aud 500 respectively.
The jury in the Emmcns case, at Washing
ton, d. c., returned a verdict thas Mrs.
Emmons was not Insane.
Charles L. Urban a Philadelphia news.
boy, has obtained verdict for $4,000 dams
ages for being pushed Off a car.
Edward Unger, the murderer Of August
Boble, whose body was found last week In a
trunk shipped to Baltimore. has made a full
confession Of the killing.
furious blizzard the worst Of the season,
prevailed in Dakota on Saturday. The Leg
is!ative council at Bismarck adjourned In
consequence OF the low Temperature.
woman IS years of age applied for treat
ment at the City Hospital in Boston claim
ing to be too poor Co purchase medicine. She
was allowed TO remain and upon beiLg SEARCH.
ed, according to the rules Of the institution
bank books representing over $1,000 and
1880 in cash and bonds were found on her
person.
Cholera has completely disappeared from
Cordova and Mendoza, where only four or
live cases now exist In Montevhieo. Urn.
quay, there are from Is to 20 cases. and there
have been from 8 to 10 deaths. General Tales
the President OF Uruguay, has obt aimed from
the Congress OF that Republic a decree of
Punishment against Ex-Presitent Santos,
who is now on his return journey from Eu-
rope.
AT Perkins, a railroad station fifteen miles
north of Escanabl, Mich, on Saturday. a
man named Patterson was found in bed with
his head split open, the deed having been
committed with an ak. Mrs Patterson
claims that she awoke aud found a boarder
named Johnson attempting to stab her with
knife Her stories are contradictory. She
has been arrested and officers are after johns
son.
Two luuaticS, whose CHARACTERISTICS are
somewhat ont of the common run. were taken
to the insane asylum in Chicago, upon an or
Ter Of commitment from the county court
One Of them, Thomas Christensen. imagines
himself de.psrately in love with young lady
who resides in his neighborhood. The other
unfortunate, George Sloat, labors under the
ielusion that he has been inspired to write a
new Bible
In Jones county, Georgia, Saturday morn
ing two boys aged 10 aud yeps, while in
the woods gathering brush, were ret upon by
Sam Bivius, aged II years, aud murdered
with an ak. Charles Rivers the father OF
the boys, headed a searching party and
found the bodies hiddea in a gully, at /
o'c'ock Sunday morning. Bivins is in Jail
and has confessed. He says he had a fight
with the bows